How does digitalisation contribute to advancing circular procurement practices? Aligning digital and green transitions to foster sustainability is key. Optimizing procurement processes with circularity criteria, ethical considerations, and the use of advanced technologies like AI is essential to achieve greater sustainability.      

The ECESP Leadership Group on Circular Procurement organised the #EUCircularTalks on Digitalisation for Circular Procurement: Global Insights and Local Applications on 27 September at 10:00 – 12:00 CEST on MS Teams. This webinar explored how Digital Product Passports are set to transform procurement with enhanced transparency and sustainability.

The session was wrapped up with a lively panel discussion, offering deep dives into key topics and a chance for participants to interact and ask questions.

Programme

10:00 Welcome and opening remarks

• Andrés Barceló Delgado, EESC representative
• Introduction to CFIT - Marieke Weerdesteijn, Rijkswaterstaat - presentation

10:15 Experts and Cases

• Circular procurement of laptops: a framework contract for remanufactured laptops - Vincent O’Reilly, Irish Office of Government Procurement (OGP) - presentation
• Rediscovery Centre’s Low Energy Website Project - Claire Downey, Rediscovery Centre - presentation
• Digital Product Passports: Traceability for Circularity in ICT Procurement - Hannes Mäki, TCO Development - presentation
• AI and big data as enablers of sustainable procurement - Jon Goriup Dermasti, VGC.AI - presentation

11:15 Panel discussion + Q&A, moderated by Marieke Weerdesteijn from Rijkswaterstaat and coordinator of the Circular and Fair ICT Pact

11:55 Closing remarks